The W1 stock around Carnaby Street and Golden Square is Georgian and early Victorian. ONS records 98% flats, 2% houses and 4,257 households in Soho.
52% of households rent privately and 20% own, which is why commercial cleaning demand here peaks around tenancy changeovers and completion dates.
Soho substrates run to with metal stud partitions between rooms, over dot-and-dab plasterboard over blockwork — and with 52% of homes here privately rented, it sets the booking date as often as the job does. Nothing is drilled until the wall has been sounded, because in W1, short screws that grip only the board and slowly lever it off the dabs — with 28% social-rented stock locally, block access is agreed with the estate office first is the mistake that costs a W1 customer twice.
Two streets can behave very differently in Soho: post-production studios, restaurants and above-shop flats packed into a Georgian grid. The quote reflects the street the job is actually on. Soho sits inside the Congestion Charge zone as well as ULEZ, so both are itemised on the quote rather than absorbed into an hourly rate.
On access, pedestrian zones, night-time economy congestion and no lifts in most walk-ups — carry-up is the default — one reason one to four operatives depending on floor area, with a named supervisor and a mobile cover team for sickness. Fitters travelling in use Tottenham Court Road (Central, Northern, Elizabeth line).
